Week 1: First Day Jitters

It's Erin, Jared, Markos and Claire's first day back at the CIA and the reviews are already in: Chef Greweling is dreamy and Chef Averbeck is scary.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Reality
• cooking
• food
• culinary
• school
• chef

[robertmartinez]

Darrenov: yes, it is hard work and not always good pay. but don't you think learning skills of any kind, including professional chef training, is valuable for one's entire life? of course it is. they will use their cooking skills throughout life and understand much of life better than a person not trained in food. we all eat food for an entire lifetime! better than taking "art" at the local junior college.

[GL3NE]

Very, very cool. A reality-esque series for culinary arts?? I never thought it would be this interesting.

[ispepteid1]

LOL> Culinary school is a joke. Those "earn your culinary degree in 9 weeks" is a TOTAL joke, lol. Restraunts aint gonna hire you, lol. Restraunts tend to hire crack smokers over some dude that has their culinary "college" degree. I know a chick that has FOUR culinary degrees and now she's working for Ronald McDonald, L.O.L.

[xxxDJTOMAxxx]

Gunna apply for bachelors program for culinary arts in 2012

[xxxDJTOMAxxx]

Gunna apply for bachelors prom for culinary arts in 2012

[ihatenoobs27]

That IS a sauce gun (im culinary btw)

[OMGitsSatin]

i love these videos seriously. I applied here so i hope i get in

[coto232]

@warrior1269 I had the same dream as u do and i was maybe younger 11- 12... i've had the chance to go to meet a few schools in the world.. cordon bleu is one of them campus london and campus paris, i've also been doing lots of research, i dont recomend them to you, its not that good, there is lots of other schools better than that, such as fci in new york, cia, jwu campus providence, paul bocuse lyon-france, dct switzerland, ferrandi paris.. i might go to ferrandi or dct next year. hope i helped

[moneybelt22]

@robertmartinez i worked at campus restaurant in connecticut i got burned out and ended up in the ER now i do anther line of wok

[warrior1269]

i wanna know what type of classes does the le cordon bleu offer lol im 15 but ever since i was little i dreamed of attending this school i just want to choose something im going to enjoy i love baking but then i love cooking please help lol

[SuperOlds88]

@wz300 I would be interested to know which schools "are better for far less money"? Did you attend the CIA? I would hope you did, because it would be hard to make a judgement call such as you did without firsthand knowledge.

[sickkat44]

ive been in restaurants for 20+ yrs., and i have very rarely found a culinary student who is truly worth their salt. Most seem to want to be celebrity chefs with no real concern for team work, sanitation, budgeting or the ability to think on their feet. To appreciate a restaurant they should start at the bottom and not think a culinary certificate automatically entitles them to a great position once graduating. Many don't have what it takes to work in a restaurant environment.